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Surveying works are well underway in several areas of Longford as part of a €34 million high speed broadband investment in the county.  Surv...

Business Editor The head of the company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Plan (NBP) has said it is looking at opportunities to accelerate the seven-year building programme. But the chief executive of National Broadband Ireland, Peter Hendrick, indicated that getting sufficient skills could be a difficulty. "In doing so, there are some challenges ahead in terms of getting people into the country, resources, training-up," he said. "There are lots of students and graduates, getti...

Surveying for broadband taking place across Kildare Reporter:  ); National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high-speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) today announced that surveying works in several areas of Kildare are well underway. Surveying NBI contractors have been on the ground across the country for eight months and over 158,000 premises nationwide have been surveyed to date. This involves physically walking the ro...

Clare T.D. Michael McNamara has expressed his disappointment at the “frustratingly slow” roll out of a high speed and future proofed broadband network across County Clare as part of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) State led Intervention. Deputy McNamara was speaking ahead of a briefing by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) to Clare County Council this Mondayat which the CEO Peter Hendrick will outline the NBI’s deployment plan for Clare. “I have been informed by NBI that properties in j...

    679 schools will be connected to broadband by the end of 2022 in an acceleration of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) announced today by the Government and NBI. Under the originally-planned rollout, some schools would have had to wait up to seven years for connection. Now, all schools will be connected within two years. Some 70 schools across the country in the Intervention Area will become Broadband Connection Points (BCPs), by the end of Q1 2021, receiving 150mb high-speed connect...

Thats a hot topic. were you going to jump in? >> harris: i was going to say, the president has such an affinity for this part of the world. in county clare hes got his big golf course and resort. doonbeg is beautiful, by the way. hes got a lot of connection points. but they will talk trade, and probably some golf. >> melissa: we are back to the picture. we love it. no doubt he will mention at some point how he called brexit. he was there the day of the vote. i think we can hear it. lets listen i...

For the president but theres some substance there. you are talking about people giving some points and all of that. connection points for all americans if you will, a more level playing field in terms of experience which i found interesting myself in terms of reading this. katrina pearson, great to have you on the program, thank you. he voted against the last stopgap spending bill. what will senator rand paul do this time around? i will ask him. plus, his reaction to the senate today voting to r...

What is going on there? >> i think teresa may on counterterrorism has been relatively tough. judge jeanine: no she wasnt. she wanted everybody in the place as home secretary. >> if you look at her reputation with mi five is a pretty good one. the functional issue is. judge jeanine: the her issue is home secretary. you are talking about immigration. >> i would say at the debate yes, theres uncontrolled immigration and its a major concern. i think the functional issue here is what general mattis i...

To helped someone else that i knew on the train, you know out of the train. and so -- and i can see these different connection points starting to form. and i just really wanted you know to get together with these folks and share our knowledge. >> i would imagine. paul thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> great talking with you. >> we have to note that one of the eight passengers on the train that lost their lives was a colleague at the associated press, jim gaines. he was a video software arc...

Thank you, dann. molly? >> here in the u.s. some folks get upset if they lose the internet for a few minutes. in north korea most people never even noticed when the web went dark. the country has only 1024 registered internet addresses with access to the outside world for a population of 25 million. in south korea, they have around 112 million connection points for a population of 49 million. here is perspective. here in the u.s., we have about 1.5 billion, billion, ip addresses for a population...